Back In The Mix

I've been kind of operating on auto-pilot this month and the writings from me have few and further between. I guess I have just been focusing on other things lately, more so just trying to not take everything so goddamn personally all the time. I guess that mostly goes towards my job, which was the source of a lot of headaches these past month or two. But I came to the conclusion (again) that there are just certain things in life that just aren't worth stressing over.

Besides, all of this unnecessary stress is producing a couple of white hairs on my head already. I'm too young for that crap!

Aside from that though, I guess being a long time wrestling fan, I am still in shock with the sudden retirement of Edge. Ever since his announcement on Raw a few weeks back, I kept watching and hoping that this was somehow all some sort of bad storyline. This couldn't be for real, right? I mean wrestlers "retire" all of the time, this had to be another one of those times right?

Now that the days have turned into weeks and more and more details have surfaced, it is apparent that this is absolutely real. It is a terrible thing in some ways, I mean I think Edge had only really hit his stride in the past few years. Okay, I suppose that isn't all too true since the man is an 11 time world champion. Most guys are lucky to even get to hold that belt a time or two.

On the flip side onto the gaming side of things, there are a couple of games that have caught my attention over the course of this past few weeks. The top of that is the game Brink, as well as reboot of Mortal Kombat.

Now Brink I am liking because it seems like an updated, fleshed out version of Borderlands. I suppose the thing that draws me a bit more to this is the promise of co-op game play as well as a ton of character customizations, the latter of which Borderlands lacked. I am keeping an eye out on this one, hopefully there will be a demo released for this some time before the game's launch.

As for Mortal Kombat, well... I've never been really that great or even good at fighting games. I don't really know why I want to play this, but I'd like to at least give the game a shot. Maybe I can pick it up and actually get better then I ever did before. Or, as I learned after playing both Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV, I could just get smashed over and over and over again.

One last little bit here, I just got Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection in the mail (gotta love GameFly) and playing that game, again, somehow is still awesome to me. I kind of dig the updated graphics and I like the little details added into the game. It makes the story feel more fleshed out, more detailed I suppose. Hell on top of that, I like the option of picking between the original OST or the arranged version. I know these are all nothing much to be excited about, but having played the game as many times as I have already, the little changes and what not do make a difference.

And before I quit this, I can't believe the announcement that both Final Fantasy VI AND Chrono Trigger are headed to PSN. Well in Japan... Still! Those games better make their way over to the U.S.! Square-Enix wouldn't leave us in the dark on these games would they? Would they?